On 6/16/2010 11:47 AM, Ron W8RJL wrote:
> Patch panel is good idea and I am leaning that direction. They make male UHF
> and N connectors with no threads so you can just push them on the panel
> female connector.
I've used those, but they the ones I had tended to loosen up in a few
months to a year.
> I built a patch panel like that when I worked at a city
> radio lab. It worked just fine. You can actually make two panels. One for
> antenna termination and one for equipment terminations. They need to be
> isolated electrically and far enough apart to reduce chance of lightning
> jumping from one to the other (NO common ground).
I make sure to ground everything to a common ground single point ground.
73
Roger (K8RI)
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